Make Your Praise Glorious!

"Shout with joy to God, all the earth! Sing the glory of his name; make his praise glorious! Say to God, "How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies cringe before you. All the earth bows down to you. They sing praise to you. They sing praise to your name. Selah. Come and see what God has done, how awesome his works in man's behalf!" Psalm 66:1-5.

Gospel artist Martha Munizzi has a song entitled, "Glorious." I use to play it often when I was on the radio in the mornings. It is the kind of song that helps you get to work on time and in a joyous mood! When you hear this upbeat song, you can't help but go to work praising God because a reoccuring line in the song states, "I was created to make Your praise glorious!" The song reminds us that our top priority on the job, at lunch, and throughout the day is to put God first and give Him glorious praise in thought and in deed.

Our Sunday school text this weekend (UMI Book) from Psalm 66 is a great foundational and complementary text to Martha Munizzi's song, "Glorious." The psalmist reminds us that we are here to give God glorious praise! When we think about how awesome God is, we should become thankful for His goodness towards us. He's the uncaused Cause who causes everything to exist; He's the God who causes our solar systerm, the galaxies, and the universe to hang in the heavens; He's the God who delivered the Israelites from Egyptian bondage and into the Promise Land; and He's the God who was so mindful of tiny, insignificant humanity that He gave His only Son to die for our sins! When we think about all this, how awesome (terrible) is our God, we should want to make our praise glorious!

In offering glorious praise to our awesome God, we should 1) "Shout with joy to God (v1); 2) Sing the glory of his name (v2); 3) Say to Him (in prayer) (v3); and 4) Come and see what He has done (v5)!

This week, make your praise glorious! Shout, sing, say, and invite the unchurched and dechurched to come and see our awesome God! He is worthy to be praised!